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Essays, moral, political, and literary - Page 171
by David Hume - 1817
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Essays and Treatises on Several Subjects. ...

David Hume - 1768 - 606 pages
...alfo comprehended in the order of the univerfe. Jf plagues and earthquakes break not heavn's defign, Why then a BORGIA or a CATILINE ? Let this be allowed ; and my own vices will alfo be a part of the fame order. To one who faid, that none was happy, who was not above opinion,...
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An essay on man. Cornish ed

Alexander Pope - 1798 - 140 pages
...greater good in the moral, as appears from the sublime images in the following lines : , If plagues or earthquakes break not heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but he, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms,...
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The Historical, biographical, literary, and scientific magazine ..., Volume 1

Robert Bisset - 636 pages
...has infinitely greater credit with them : Pope upon this subject elegantly observes: If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but he whose hand the lightnings form, Who heaves old Ocean, and who wings the storm, Pour'd...
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An Essay on the Genius and Writings of Pope ...

Joseph Warton - 1806 - 440 pages
...Would you wish to disturb so divine an order, for the sake of your own particular interest ? What if the ills I suffer arise from malice or oppression...comprehended in the order of the universe. If plagues, fyc. Let this be allowed, and my own vices will be also a part of the same order." - Such is the commentary...
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The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope: In Four Volumes. Collated with the ...

Alexander Pope, Thomas Park - 1808 - 328 pages
...much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightuing forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wings the storms, Pours...
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Poetical Works

Alexander Pope - 1808 - 334 pages
...much eternal springs and cloudless skies, As men for ever temperate, calm, and wise. If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? Who knows but He, whose hand the lightning forms, Who heaves old ocean, and who wiugs the storms,...
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Essays, moral, political, and literary

David Hume - 1809 - 868 pages
...Would you wish to disturb so divine an order far the sake of your own particular interest ? What if the ills I suffer arise from malice or oppression...the universe : If plagues and earthquakes break not heav'n's design, Why then a BORGIA or a CATILINE ? Let this be allowed ; and my own vices will also...
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The Works of Cornelius Tacitus: With an Essay on His Life and ..., Volume 6

Cornelius Tacitus, Arthur Murphy - 1811 - 518 pages
...accidentia. Seneca, De Constantia Sapientis, cap. 9. Pope has said in the same spirit : If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a BORGIA or a CATILINE ? Section LXXVI. (a) The Treviri and Lingones had been persuaded by Cerealis to lay down their arms....
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The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton, D.D., Lord ..., Volume 11

William Warburton, Richard Hurd - 1811 - 454 pages
...79. f Examsn de 1'Essai, &c. but to the perfection of the universe in general. So that, If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? On which the Examiner thus descants, — " These lines " have no sense but on the system of Leibnitz,...
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The Works of the Right Reverend William Warburton ...

William Warburton - 1811 - 444 pages
...Examen de 1'Essai, &c. bUt but to the perfection of the universe in general. So that, If plagues or earthquakes break not Heaven's design, Why then a Borgia or a Catiline ? On which the Examiner thus descants, — " These lines *' have no sense but on the system of Leibnitz,...
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